Question about the customer applications.

FireHopper

My costume is basicly finished, and uses a basic stamp 2 OEM, and PSC usb in it. and wondering if I should put in the application to the customer applications page. I just need to write up and take pictures, plus make the schematic.
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Whit

I think you should go for it. At the least, you can post it here for all of us to see in the Completed Projects section. It will also give you a record of what you did while it is still fresh in your mind.

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Whit+


"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

FireHopper

what formats can you guys read? So I save things in the right formats.. And I'm not sure I know how to make the schematic for this.

Whit

Everybody can download an attached pdf. If you don't have the ability to do this, there are some good free pdf programs out there. I use CutePDF. It is listed as a "printer." You print to it and it saves to file a pdf.

I also have a free schematic drawing tool called TinyCAD. It works pretty well and then you would have access to that for other projects.

You should be able to find both of these with a Google search.

Good luck and have fun.

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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

FireHopper

thanks whit, that helps, got the write up done, need to finish making the schema, then I need to take the pictures. I have video of the costume in action at a local renfaire as well, I don't know if they want that too.. do I zip everything up then attach that to the application? or send stuff seperately?

Whit

I would post each part. Folks can see the images or code links below your post and look at what they want. You can also "print" your TinyCAD schematic as a pdf too. That makes everything accesible to anyone with a pdf reader.

Can't wait to see the project. My son will love it, I'm sure!

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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

Whit

I got the following information off the Customer Applications page on Parallax's website. Check out the last line - It'd be worth a shot, eh?

Parallax Customer Applications page said...

Customer Applications

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Whit+


"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

FireHopper

thanks whit. I have some pictures and a youtube video of the costume if Ya want to look while I finish writing stuff up then take pictures of the wingpack itself.



http://www.chameleon.net/~firehopper/renfaire2/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr0CtnNMF9s



there ya go whit [noparse]:)[/noparse]

Whit

Neat project FireHopper! Can't wait to see how it works. Thanks for taking the time to share with everyone.

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Whit+


"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

FireHopper

almost done, got the code cleaned up, made the 2 pdf's and just took the pictures. getting ready to convert the filenames to explain what the shots are, and then make a gallery out of em to save uploading em to parallax [noparse]:)[/noparse] so they dun have 38 megs in thier mailbox [noparse]:)[/noparse]

I'm gonna post stuff here before I submit so someone can check it to see if anything needs to be corrected/added

FireHopper

http://www.chameleon.net/~firehopper/application/gallery.html << pictures here

http://www.chameleon.net/~firehopper/application/wings.pdf << Schematic

http://www.chameleon.net/~firehopper/application/animatroniccostumeinfo.pdf << the writeup

http://www.chameleon.net/~firehopper/application/wingpacktwo.bs2 << the code

edited to set the urls as links

any hints to make it better?

Post Edited (FireHopper) : 5/18/2008 1:39:52 PM GMT

Whit

I haven't studied it in detail, but it looks good to me. Your schematic came out well too!

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Whit+


"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

Post Edited (Whit) : 5/18/2008 4:32:07 PM GMT

FireHopper

okay.. I'll submit it then

FireHopper

done, cross your fingers that they like it.. now to post those files in the completed project's forum

FireHopper

one more quick question, do they reply to let you know that they got it, and how long does it usually take, just curious. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

Whit

FireHopper said...
one more quick question, do they reply to let you know that they got it, and how long does it usually take, just curious. [noparse]:)[/noparse]

No idea. You will submit to address shown above also- yes?

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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

FireHopper

did that before I posted to the completed forum [noparse]:)[/noparse]

Whit

Great! Best of luck!

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"We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths." - Walt Disney

FireHopper

thanks.. what do ya think of all the pictures and stuff. did I explain it good enough?